Aditya Katre Aditya Katre

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A trail up a steep mountain zigzags. Progress feels sideways most of the time, and then you look down.

  1. Grade 6

    Picked up the tenor saxophone.

  2. Grade 7

    Joined Boy Scouts of America Troop 685 and started playing competitive tennis.

  3. Grade 7

    Joined CyberAegis and started teaching myself networking and Linux to earn a spot on the top team.

  4. Mar 2023

    CyberPatriot XV National Finals, Middle School Division: 2nd place overall and 1st in the Cisco Networking Challenge.

  5. Mar 2024

    Started independent research on classifying whales and dolphins with CNNs.

  6. Apr 2024

    Won first place at the SoCal Cyber Cup.

  7. Summer 2024

    UC Irvine Game Science program: wrote and built a horror game in Unity and pitched it to investors.

  8. Oct 2024

    Co-founded the Del Norte AI Club.

  9. 2025

    Reached USACO Silver Division.

  10. Sep 2025

    Marine mammal paper published in the National High School Journal of Science.

  11. 2025

    Scrapp placed 4th in the Congressional App Challenge (CA-50).

  12. Jan 2026

    Joined Prof. Hajar Homayouni's Data Science Lab at San Diego State University.

  13. Mar 2026

    Scrapp featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

  14. Aug 2026

    Earned Eagle Scout. Filed a provisional patent as sole inventor of DentaScan.

  15. Fall 2026

    Author, with Prof. Homayouni, on a paper accepted to IEEE BigData 2026; invited to present. Senior year at Del Norte.

  16. Next

    college: CS and AI. still climbing.